Chapter 191 Did You Really Not Hide the Gun? Ask for a Monthly Pass ()
After waiting for more than an hour, Amuro Toru had already had two refills of his tea, but the writer still hadn't shown up.
Jiang Xia had already changed his drink from tea to juice. He couldn't help but glance at Amuro Toru and said, "Boss, are you staying up all night today?"
Amuro Toru actually nodded calmly: "Busy with work."
Jiang Xia: “…”
As they were talking, there was a chaotic noise in the corridor - the memorial service was about to begin. Kogoro Mori and the others hurriedly packed up the table tennis room and went out one after another, preparing to go to the festival.
After they left one after another, a figure suddenly walked down the stairs.
Toru Amuro's eyes lit up, and he secretly poked Jiang Xia, reminding him to be careful - if he remembered correctly, the person who came down was Sasai Shinichi, the writer friend of Imatake Satoshi.
My roommates have all come down, so how far can Jin Zhuzhi be?
Toru Amuro felt that he saw the light.
…
Under the two people's obscure gaze, Sasai Nobukazu walked to the front desk while looking at his wrist and asked the waiter: "What time is it now? My watch seems to be broken."
The waiter said politely, "7:46 p.m."
"...I told him the watch was slow, but that guy didn't believe me." Sasai Nobuichi clicked his tongue, turned around and walked out of the hall, heading straight towards the festival.
Toru Amuro withdrew his gaze from him and waited for Satoshi Imatake to appear.
Jiang Xia looked at Sasai Nobuyuki for a while longer, until his back completely disappeared. Then he withdrew his gaze in boredom and flipped through the mystery novel in his hand to pass the time.
…
Before I knew it, another ten minutes had passed.
The stairs were almost swept through by Amuro Toru's occasional glances, but Imatake Tomo still didn't go downstairs.
As the festival time approached, fewer and fewer people filled the hotel.
After a while, the ceremony was about to begin.
Amuro Toru glanced at his watch silently, then looked upstairs: "... Imatake Satoshi wouldn't have forgotten that there's a festival today, right?"
Jiang Xia cooperated with him and analyzed the situation: "It's also possible that he realized he was late and just didn't bother to go."
As they were talking, the door of the hotel was pushed open from the outside, and a man wearing sunglasses, a scarf and a hat, strode in and went straight to the second floor.
Jiang Xia glanced at the man and looked away as if nothing had happened.
He continued to whisper to Amuro Toru, following what he had just said, "It's not a good idea to keep waiting like this. If the festival is over, Imatake Satoshi's roommate will be back, and that will be troublesome... How about I go to the second floor and try to run into him? There are some lounges upstairs, and maybe he will come over."
Amuro Toru thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay, I'll continue to guard here."
…
Jiang Xia walked up the stairs slowly to the second floor, like a tourist enjoying life.
Different from Jiangxia’s leisurely “strolling” attitude.
In the two rooms next door, some people were busy working.
…
In room 201, there was a man and a woman. They were two of Maori Kogoro's classmates - Nakamichi Kazushi, who had just suggested playing table tennis, and Horikoshi Yumi, who was angry about it.
At that time, the reason why Horikoshi Yumi was furious was because the time of "everyone playing table tennis together" was originally the "private chat" time she and Nakamichi Kazushi had agreed on.
She and Nakamichi Kazushi had been in love for more than ten years. They should have gotten married a long time ago, but Horikoshi Yumi didn't like the feeling of being "bound" and rejected Nakamichi Kazushi's proposals several times.
Nakamichi Kazushi broke up with her, dated another woman, and quickly decided to get married. When Horikoshi Yumi found out, she was angry at this "abandonment" and took the intimate photos of the two of them to blackmail Nakamichi Kazushi.
Nakamichi Kazushi was so angry that he decided to kill this annoying guy. Just now, after the classmates finished playing table tennis and went to visit the festival one after another, he coaxed Horikoshi Yumi to play a game alone.
When both of them were sweating profusely, Nakamichi Hezhi suddenly smiled sinisterly and said, "I had already stolen those intimate photos you brought with you during the chaos."
Horikoshi Yumi was shocked and rushed back to the room, looking down for her backpack.
Nakamichi Kazushi immediately followed, and after entering the room, he took out a pistol and pointed it at her from behind - Horikoshi Yumi had just done intense exercise, and if he killed her at this time, her body would stiffen faster than usual. In reverse order, she would just "die while everyone was playing table tennis together", and Nakamichi Kazushi would have a perfect alibi.
Thinking of the wonderful scene at that time, Nakamichi Kazushi slowly tightened his hand on the trigger and revealed a happy smile.
…
In the next room, No. 202, there are two writers - Sasui Shinichi and Imautake Sasai.
After Sasai Nobuyuki swaggered out of the hotel, he put on a disguise and ran back - he wanted to kill his bastard colleague Imatake Tomo.
In Nobuichi Sasai's opinion, the work that made Satoshi Imatake famous was clearly a collaboration between the two of them, but in the end, only Satoshi Imatake became famous.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the world was unfair, and gradually he developed the desire to kill. So he spent a year preparing for a murder tonight.
During tonight's festival, bonfires in the shapes of "天", "下" and "一" will be lit on the top of the mountain in order.
A year ago, Nobuichi Sasai used an old camera to take a photo of himself with the two bonfires, "Sky" and "Down".
This year, he planned to rush to the scene wearing the same clothes after shooting Imatake Satoshi, and ask a passerby to take a photo of him with the character "一". In this way, he would look like he had been at the festival and had never returned to the hotel, so he would have an alibi.
At this time, Nobuichi Sasai had already entered the room in disguise and was messing up the room - in order to disguise it as a burglary.
When Tomo Imatake heard some noise in the living room, he walked out with a toothbrush in his mouth, looking confused. At a glance, he saw Nobuichi Sasai, who was covered tightly, standing by the door.
Jinzhu Zhi asked doubtfully: "What are you doing..."
Sasai Nobuichi smiled at him and suddenly pulled out his gun.
…
In the corridor separated by a wall.
When Jiang Xia reached the stairs to the second floor, he saw fireworks being set off at the festival from afar through the window in the corridor.
As the fireworks exploded, gunshots were heard in the hotel.
It was actually two shots, but because they happened to go off at the same time, it sounded like just one gunshot.
…
Nobuichi Sasai shot and killed Tomoyuki Imatake, then grabbed a bag of valuables, pretending to be a robber, and ran out of the house.
The guests on the same floor heard the gunshots and poked their heads out of their rooms in confusion. Sasai Nobuichi shouted at the people who were watching the excitement, "Get out of my way!"
When passersby saw the gun in his hand, they quickly retreated back into the room.
…
After Sasai Nobuichi finished shouting, he glanced around and saw that the corridor in front of him was empty, with only a young man passing by.
The man probably hadn't reached his own room yet, so he couldn't retreat back into the room, but he also stopped and seemed to "get out of the way" obediently.
Nobuichi Sasai didn't pay much attention to this "passerby" and ran past Jiang Xia.
Just as they passed each other, he felt a weight on his collar and was suddenly pulled into the air by a hand, followed by a heavy blow on his wrist.
"ah--!!"
Nobuichi Sasai let out a scream, lost his strength and let go of the gun, which fell to the ground with a clatter.
Almost at the same time, his whole body was swung around like a sack, and fell heavily to the ground with a "bang".
…
Nobuichi Sasai, a mental worker, was suddenly hit hard by this and fainted without a sound.
What fell from him was not only a gun, but also a camera.
The camera drew an arc in the air and fell precisely onto Room 201, the door of the room where Nakamichi Kazushi and Horikoshi Yumi were.
As the door was pushed open a crack, at the moment the camera fell to the ground, a lump of clay-like substance suddenly rose from the ground and hit the shutter in an inconspicuous way. The camera made a "click" sound, but the sound was wrapped in clay and diluted by the sound of Sasai Shinichihei hitting the ground, so it was not noticeable.
The camera completed its mission and continued to slide to the side.
Just as it was about to roll down the stairs, a hand caught it.
——Toru Amuro heard the gunshots and ran upstairs vigilantly.
Behind him were Mouri Ran and Conan - two high school students who were originally on their way to the festival, but on the way, Mouri Ran remembered that Horikoshi Yumi had not come, and thought she was still sulking in the room, so she took Conan back to find her.
(End of this chapter)
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